Leadership Assessment and Accountability Program

Leadership Assessment

This program specializes in assessing for key leadership positions in SA charitable franchises.

To help new servant leaders function effectively as a team and to facilitate the fulfillment of their desire to truly serve exploited women, youth and their children, the SA Foundation uses a few evaluative tools which are used formally and informally, for self and group assessment.

Profiles for key positions within an SA charitable franchise, such as the Organizational Development Team (3 founding members) and the Executive Director have been developed by the SA Foundation and the outcome of the evaluation process is to determine what roles each new leader will be fit for.

Evaluation Tools:

Leadership View: an evaluation from perspectives of friends, colleagues, mentors, authority figures and trainees (or someone supervised by potential servant leader).   

Personal Assessment: evaluation generated from each potential servant leader’s own perspective. New servant leaders are encouraged to develop a habit of self-assessment; this tool can help them do so

DISC Profile: an evaluation that gives indicators of potential servant leader’s predominant style of leading, both naturally and under stress. It is a good tool for team building and predicting conflict.

Leadership ReView: engaging in the same evaluative process of the Leadership View, but accomplished after having spent one year serving exploited women and youth in the SA charitable franchise.

Accountability

Through the development of Learning Contracts, compiled from the information gained during the Leadership Assessment, approved servant leaders of SA charitable franchises remain accountable for their growth process and skill development. Such results are shared and then addressed during the SA Formation of Servants program, through additional training sessions as needed and through regular communications with the World Services Division.

NOTE: The practice of the SA Formation of Servants program is non-negotiable for the key leadership of an SA charitable franchise. The key leadership represents:

• The Organizational Development Team (ODT)
• The Voting Membership
• The Board of Directors
• The Executive Director
• The Program Coordinator
• The Director of Operations (if any)
• The Daycare Director (if any)
• All Live-in Servants

There are two key reasons why such program became mandatory for the leadership of SA charitable franchises:

• It equips such leadership with a greater understanding of the difficulties encountered by the young women they serve when they attempt to change their way of life
• Considering the potential for abuse, neglect or mismanagement (just to name a few issues) within the helping industry, the SA Foundation made the decision that this mandatory practice will at least encourage personal recovery and accountability with those in charge, thus enacting ‘due diligence’ with not only the participants that they serve, but also with communities in which the SA charitable franchise is developed,. Even though the SA Foundation recognizes that it cannot stop or fix human behaviours, the program provides the atmosphere in which transparent and accountable leadership are promoted.

Therefore, any SA charitable franchise that discontinues this non-negotiable practice will immediately be removed from the Accreditation program until they are ready to see the value of personal recovery for their organization’s leadership and all other support from the SA Foundation will be reconsidered.

[The SA Formation of Servants program is also made available to all other staff and volunteers, but is not mandatory for them.]